Fertilizer-spreader.



, PATENTED JULY 24, 1906.

' P. WRIGHT. FERTILIZER SPREADER.-

APPLIUATION FILED NOV. 13. 1905.

2 SHEETS-*SKEET l Wane/50% PATENTED JULY 24, 1906.

P. WRIGHT.

FERTILIZER SPREADER.

APPLICATION FILED x0113. 1905.

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'l'erbe ted July 24;, 1906.

Application iliml Hovember 13, 1905. Serial llol 237,058.

To it 107mm it-nw-y concern:

Be it human than I PETER WRIGHT, a citizon oi. the United Fit-ates, residing at Jz1- cinto, in the county of Jennings and Statc of indium. have invented o rain now and usein Fen OISP 1Q&(l%I'S,-. Gi Which the following is a specification.

In the ordinary type of fertilizer--spreadoi's, wherein the fertilizer is discharged iio'm the rear end of the Wagombcd by means of a 1'0- tary drum the ax i' which, is parallel to the supoorting the space covwagon cannot ation is to J. prod able to l; o

moons of t'v hic utcd over a strip width that). the W dth oi th 5% a The ziccol'ng miying drotz'zngs Silos invention.

"Jim? oi? the em- .hd elevation; a vortlcci h'od suppcrtcd h tvl'iocls The ho 7; an endless 003W j i3, which axutoiimt lliit'tliy moved to 5i .r 519/ i '1 arm .16, which is rcciprocc m cocaine 1?, carried by iced-drum 1 wliich ie 1 by means raft 18 of a L- chzrin. er c pair of idlors and 24, the iQ. 1g carried by an mom which tho wagon-load may be swung i iirarvings t thcpaw'l being carried of a hand-lever 26 so as to throw the chain 21 into and out of engagement with the sprocketwiheol 2, so as to stop the rotation of tho drum 19 at any time.

The drum 19 is preferably covered by a hood 2'2, which leads downward to a hopper intowhich the fertilizer is discharged and fro m which it flows onto the upper surface of it throwingg wheol 29, which is journaled upon su table vertical standard 30, arranged beneath the hopper and supported by a su tchic cross hcam 21, attached to the Wagonbed. Table 39 is provided on. its upper face 21 his 32, which are adapted to on- 1 taco oi thi 'WllGQl. Wheel 29 Al .i lay any suitable lil'dftnfi itfi to instance, attached. to the under side of a, whee and. i'ncshing with a 34, car ricd by a, shaft 35, journaled onv the bar 31 cud driven by 11119-51118 of it chain 36, passing over sprocket-Wheel 37, attached to shaft' 35, and m sprocket-orbital 38, attached to the shaft .18.

In. operation the Wagon-bed 10' is filled awvpiy of fort i. .7 and driven to the ilQSinil "min-l of distribution, the chain 21 be ngh.

hem tho desired point is reached,

1 the sprochct 22, whereupon drum 19 is mtatod in the direction indicated the in row and the had 13 is gradually fed to tho or. The fertilizer engaged by drumlg is carried up over the some anddopusited in a hoppor 28yfrom whence it flows own the up.- 1' face 01'? tho throwitog-Wheel 29, which is rotated rapidly in. tho direction indicated by r ow. So soon. at the foltiiizcr drops 1e izrco oi the throwiicg-Wheel it is en 'lisil iii-ins 2&2 and by them 6 distance,

Joly reater OElnJ'Bd. y this abut-ei'ertilizer over much tower trips than with the 0rd intr constructic-n.

I claim. my ir1vai1tio11- A c ,1 Jim 11.011 "wit .a sui a) eve i- Whoonl fit h tll l1 (Bl-o of a iced-drum ournale-d ct roar rhcrcoi, means for driving said feed-drum, a,- llUOWJXlg-WYllQPl ouriicied on tho vehicle to rotate in it suhs antizilly horizontal plane' hcmath and to the ooiarof the, ioed-drum a deiizcr and throw the some Ito-.-

lj out of engagement with the sprocket S31 thrown. down into engagement- Strip the livery-hood covering the feed-drum and exchute, and the said. chute, de

2. The combination, with a suitable vehiale having an endless-belt bottom, of means for driving said. bottom to the reel, 8- feeddrum jeumaled above said bottom etthe rem, means for driving said. feed-drum, 2x throwing-wheel joul'n'eled on the vehicle to rebate in a substantially h rizon'Lalpm-ne beneath and to the reel of the fee 1-drum, a delivery-hood covering the feed-drum and extending to 0; chute, and the said chute, de- 1 liv'ering to the reerwardly-meving side of the throwing-wheel, substantially as and for the purpose set forbh.

[In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and see at San Jeem'to, Indiana, this 20 fish day ef November, A. D. 1905.

1 PETER WRIGLTf [14. s]

" Wifineisses:

MARY E. M me, CHARLES W. MILES. 

